How to Start a SaaS Business With No Idea - Pawel Brzeminski - MicroConf 2015

[@UTJK.]

This video is a treasure. I wasn't sure at the beginning... but defintely this guy knows his way. Very useful to hear.

[@richardtuharsky2263]

This video is amazing tbh, it clarified things that I wasn't sure about for a long time, thanks a lot.

[@MicroConf]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching, Richard.

[@hustlahhh1790]

Incredibly valuable video, thanks

[@sagar.pardeshi]

This is gold. Period.

[@taslimsuman]

Nice Idea. I will try to use this method.

[@lwjunior2]

Great Presentation

[@qutaibabs1]

why would he spend 20 mins with you to talk about his problem if you are not known or a company or anything. just a personel. any specific idea can be doen to tackle the situation ?

[@AnsgarHugo]

How do you make sure in those calls about pain points, that the person you call talks about pain, that is solvable with software? Maybe they drift into management issues? Did not happen?

[@MicroConf]

For some ideas on how to steer the conversation, you might check out two books: Deploy Empathy by Michelle Hansen and The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick.

[@kaxar6954]

Take a chance. Let's brainstorm together and build something.

[@smitkalamkar8994]

Hey what are you upto now ?

[@kaxar6954]

@@smitkalamkar8994 Still watching YT videos for inspiration.

[@oSpam]

@@kaxar6954what about now, you’ve had a year!

[@yart4420]

How do you get email addresses of staff inside companies you don't know? They are not generally published or on websites to stop spam. You could use LinkedIn Sales Navigator to start a conversation but thats not an email. I wonder if there is another technique?

[@MicroConf]

You can use something like Linkedin Navigator to find the people to target, and then use a tool like FindyMail to find the email address of those folks. I invested in FindyMail through TinySeed.

[@qutaibabs1]

What if the product is crappy . U end up in debt

[@oSpam]

@@qutaibabs1that’s the whole goal of validation and preselling. Use them clients as feedback people. If it’s a crappy product and you’re not able to improve, that reflects more on you

[@lwjunior2]

Here’s my challenge with this, the business owners you’re interviewing have way more experience and resources than you do. If they can’t solve their problem, with all their resources...how do you?

[@ruchirpahuja]

Because they don’t have the time to invest and expertise in software .. they can use a ready solution off the shelf but cannot build one. Economies of scale play a big role too.

[@generalqwer]

@@ruchirpahuja Yep exactly right, you can pay an in house dev or freelancer $10k a month to build the solution or subscribe to a SAAS for $100 a month. Easy choice.

[@IGatDominion]

Aaaaaaaaaaaa

[@Kingromstar]

This isn't accurate. For example, I literally just saw a software engineer who owns a software development agency just ask how he can easily pay his contract employees (over 25 of them) without having to manually send payments to each individual one. He can literally write the software to solve his own problem but obviously doesn't think it's worth it or doesn't have the resources so he is looking to find an application out there for $50 a month that can do it for him. He just posted this on Reddit.

[@ward7576]

@@Kingromstar I hope you will still get notification for this, but can you share the link? Highly unlikely that you can find it at this point so late, but all I have is hope

[@cloogshicer]

This was great, thank you very much for the presentation!

[@MicroConf]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ZukunftBilden]

This title sounds like the pitch to a comedy show.

[@qutaibabs1]

Best ideation ever

[@bramburn]

This is gold

[@headcode]

Playback speed 0.75

[@vaidikguha81]

What is he selling to insurance companies?

[@karthykrajan6329]

Great title